In the middle of the night, 72 years ago, members of the 25th Infantry Battalion were awoken from their bunks at the Cabarlah Barracks, called to order, then marched out into the darkness, down through the thick scrub and steep slopes of the Toowoomba Range to Spring Bluff Station. ...

As Australian's gather across the country to remember the ANZAC's who've fallen fighting for Australia in the last 100 years, one young woman from recently flooded Murphy's Creek will pay her respects at ANZAC Cove.
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Famed historian Sir Richard Evans has called for the British Royal Archives to be opened in order to find out more about the Royal Family's attitude of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Recently released footage showing the Queen as a child, raising her arm in that well known gesture of a Nazi salute, ...

The royal family has become embroiled in a new battle over privacy, this time regarding its links to alleged Nazi sympathisers. Buckingham Palace has launched an investigation into who released a private film from the early 30s that shows the Queen as a young girl performing a Nazi salute. ...

A 94-year-old man has been convicted for being complicit in the murder of 300,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Oskar Groening was known as 'the bookkeeper' because his job was to count bank notes from the luggage of prisoners. He was brought to trial in Germany this year and has now been sentenced to ...